compacting two arrays

[rsterbin]

I'd like to take two arrays and compact them into one as key=>value pairs:

$array1 = "homer", "gumby", "eeyore"
$array2 = "yellow", "green", "blue"

$goal = "homer"=>"yellow", "gumby"=>"green", "eeyore"=>"blue"

I've looked around in the manual for a function like this, but I haven't been able to find one. Have I overlooked something obvious? or should I start looking for a workaround?

-Reha

[junebug]

http://www.php.net/array-merge

[reagent]

using array merge like so:

$array1 = array("homer", "gumby", "eeyore");
$array2 = array("yellow", "green", "blue");
var_dump(array_merge($array1, $array2));

will produce:

array(6) {
[0]=>
string(5) "homer"
[1]=>
string(5) "gumby"
[2]=>
string(6) "eeyore"
[3]=>
string(6) "yellow"
[4]=>
string(5) "green"
[5]=>
string(4) "blue"
}

which is not what you wanted.
I would try this:

for ($iIndex = 0; $iIndex < sizeof($array1); $iIndex++)
{
$array3[$array1[$iIndex]] = $array2[$iIndex];
}
var_dump($array3);

which will produce:
array(3) {
["homer"]=>
string(6) "yellow"
["gumby"]=>
string(5) "green"
["eeyore"]=>
string(4) "blue"
}

which is exactly what you were asking for. Remember to take into account the arrays being different sizes

p.